During her time at UW–Madison, Isabella Levinthal ’26 majored in Math and participated in the Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab. After that, she originally thought she might pursue a PhD in Math. Her academic journey took her to Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, but she still found math to be useful.

“What she wanted, she realized, wasn’t a career inside theoretical mathematics for its own sake. It was a way to point that same rigor at the ecosystems she’d come to love and turn careful observation into evidence someone could act on.”

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